• shneancy@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Bilbo was 111, and Frodo was 33 during the birthday party when Bilbo left the Shire.

    Only 17 years later, when he’s 50, does Frodo go off on the Quest to destroy the ring.

    I’m making my way through the books right now and I haven’t seen the films in ages, but if I recall correctly it’s much less clear in those that there was a time skip. Which yea if I were adapting a book I’d also skip the bit where JRRT says “and then nothing of importance happened for 17 years, apart from the fact Gandalf was travelling to do research about the ring and kinda went missing recently”.